Quotes by Guilty Person If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful. Alexandre Dumas guilty-person wish might It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go. Dolores Ibarruri guilty-person hundred inspirational It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death. Maimonides capital-punishment guilty-person innocent But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty. Michel Foucault guilty-person punishment target